On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 06:48:15PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message <009D5362.46E0DF3C.25@cc.univie.ac.at>, "Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACO net" writes:
Taking this one step further, and looking back at what we did with IPv4, where it would be feasible to say 131.130/16, implying 131.130.0.0/16, I wonder if it wouldn't again be worthwhile to restrict the use of these shorthand notations in the Address Registry?
There is certainly something to be said for making it easy for programs to parse the registry.
The current registry abbreviates. While this means a little more work for machines, people seem to have more trouble parsing long lines and are more difficult to fix in this regard than a simple parser in a program. I don't think that adding zeroes makes it easier to read and editing an existing object doesn't get very easy either: inet6num: 3FFE:1100:0:C00::/56 becomes: inet6num: 3FFE:1100:0000:0C00:0000:0000:0000:0000/56 David K. ---